- Gerd Ruge
Gerd Ruge (
9 August 1928 inHamburg ) is a German journalist.His career in journalism began at NWDRcite web|url=http://www.geschichte.nrw.de/artikel.php?artikel%5Bid%5D=812&lkz=en&WYSESSID=ajmo5i6sr24prm10878nn9jct2|title=NRW State Prize - Gerd Ruge - Winner of the 1993 NRW State Prize|publisher=Ministerium für Arbeit und Soziales, Qualifikation und Technologie des Landes NRW|accessdate=2008-05-10] , concentrating on radio reporting from abroad. In 1950, he was the first
West German journalist to report from Yugoslavia since the end of theSecond World War .Ruge was the first news correspondent for the German national television broadcaster ARD in
Moscow from 1956 until 1959, served as the ARD correspondent in the United States between 1964 and 1969, becoming the chief political correspondent for ARD in 1970.From 1973 until 1976 he reported for the newspaper "
Die Welt " fromBeijing . He subsequently worked for ARD andWDR in various functions, including as head of the ARD Studios in Moscow from 1987 until 1993. Ruge retired from ARD in September 1993.In 1961, Ruge, together with
Felix Rexhausen undCarola Stern , founded the German section ofAmnesty International inCologne .In 1963, together with
Klaus Bölling , he started the ARD programme "Weltspiegel " which is still running. From 1981 to 1983, he was the moderator of the ARD magazine programme "Monitor". WithHelmut Markwort , he moderated the3sat discussion programme "NeunzehnZehn". Under the same title "Ruge NeunzehnZehn" this programme is moderated byNina Ruge ; these two are not related, though.Since 2002, the Gerd Ruge-Stipendium (worth 100,000 Euro in total) is awarded to makers of documentary films. Ruge presides over the jury of eight.
Ruge was awarded the
Otto Hahn Peace Medal in 1999.Important reports
*1968: Following the assassination
Martin Luther King
*1968: Following the assassinationRobert Kennedy
*1991: "Four days in August", during the copu in Moscow
*1998: "Gerd Ruge in China"
*2003: "Gerd Ruge in Afghanistan"Awards
*1970 and 1971: Bambi
*1991: Goldene Kamera
*1993: Staatspreis des Landes Nordrhein-Westfalen
*1994:Bayerischer Fernsehpreis (Sonderpreis) für seine Berichte als ARD-Korrespondent in Moskau
*1999:Otto Hahn Peace Medal (in Gold)
*2001:Hanns-Joachim-Friedrichs-Preis , named after journalistHanns Joachim Friedrichs Books
*Gerd Ruge: "Michail Gorbatschow", Biographie, S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 1990, ISBN 3-10-068506-7
*Gerd Ruge: "Weites Land", Erfahrungsberichte, Berlin Verlag, Berlin, 1996, ISBN 3-426-60750-6
*Gerd Ruge: "Sibirisches Tagebuch", Reisebericht, Berlin Verlag, Berlin, 1998, ISBN 3-8270-0300-8References
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